Tentative Reference Acts? ‘Recognitional Demonstratives’ as Means of Suggesting Mutual Knowledge – or Overriding a Lack of It [PDF]
In an explorative study on German oral corpus data we investigate recognitional use of proximal demonstratives as a means of explicit speaker-hearer interaction shaping the discourse structure. We show that recognitionals mark tentative reference acts in
Averintseva-Klisch Maria +1 more
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Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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ON THE PROBLEM OF I. S. SHMELEV'S IDIOSTYLE: BASED ON THE STUDY OF LEXIS WITH THE ROOT -RAD- IN THE SHORT NOVEL THE INEXHAUSTIBLE CUP [PDF]
The article analyzes the lexemes with the root “rad” in the short novel The Inexhaustible Cup by I. S. Shmelev. Lexemes are systematized on the basis of functional thesaurus. In the process of analysis there is detected the concept of Joy.
Nikolay Ivanovich Sobolev
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Binominal Lexemes in Cross-Linguistic Perspective
The typological, contrastive, and descriptive studies in this volume investigate the strategies employed by the world’s languages to create complex denotations by combining two noun-like elements, together with the kinds of semantic relation they involve, and their acquisition by children. The term ‘binominal lexeme’ is employed to cover both noun-noun
Steve Pepper +2 more
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Remnant Case Forms and Patterns of Syncretism in Early West Germanic
Abstract Early stages of the Old West Germanic languages differ from the other two branches, Gothic and Norse, by showing remnants of a fifth case in a‐ and ō‐stem nouns. The forms in question, which have the ending ‐i or ‐u, are conventionally labelled ‘instrumental’ and cover a range of functions, such as instrument, means, comitative and locative ...
Will Thurlwell
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Japanese Compounds with the Lexeme 'Mouth': Word Formation and Meanings
In Japanese, the lexeme ‘mouth’ can be written using kanji 口 read as ‘kuchi’. It is a commonly used character that includes idiomatic expressions and compound words.
Made Henra Dwikarmawan Sudipa +2 more
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Impact of English on Serbian at lexeme level in communication on social networking website Facebook: A case study [PDF]
Summary: The paper is concerned with the influence of the English language on the Serbian language at lexeme level in communication on the social networking website Facebook.
Obradović Svetlana S.
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In Serbian theolinguistics, there is a good terminological and theoretical basis for research of sacral functional stylistics complex, e.g. functional varieties and genres of the literary language determined by sacral spheres and aims of communication ...
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Lexical relatedness and the lexical entry - a formal unification [PDF]
Based on the notion of a lexicon with default inheritance, I address the problem of how to provide a template for lexical representations that allows us to capture the relatedness between inflected word forms and canonically derived lexemes within a ...
Spencer, Andrew
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Linguistic and cultural connotations of the lexeme BIRCH in Russian and the lexeme BAMBOO in Chinese
The paper studies the historical and cultural associative meanings of the lexeme BIRCH in the Russian culture and the lexeme BAMBOO in Chinese by analyzing the results of the perception process of these objects, their concepts and images by native speakers of the Russian and Chinese languages.
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